A San Rafael man who allegedly fled to Asia to avoid prosecution in a stalking case was arrested Thursday after arriving in San Francisco on a flight from Thailand.

Barry Eugene Griff, 66, was detained at San Francisco International Airport after being met by San Rafael police. Griff has been on the San Rafael Police Department’s “most wanted” list for several years.

Griff is being held at Marin County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday to face an 18-count complaint that includes charges of stalking, disobeying court orders, inflicting mental anguish on a child and stalking with a prior conviction for stalking.

The charges against Griff were filed in 2009. The alleged victim, who has a child in common with Griff, said he repeatedly violated a court order not to contact her outside a limited schedule.

Griff allegedly called the woman up to several times an hour and all night, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by Deputy District Attorney Nicole Pantaleo. On several messages, Griff aggressively ordered the child, then 8, to pick up the phone.

On another occasion, after seeing the woman having coffee with a male friend, he called her later and said, “Tell that other man he is a dead body,” the affidavit said.

“She is always looking over her shoulder to see if defendant is watching to see to whom she is talking,” Pantaleo wrote of the victim.

Authorities suspect Griff has been living in Laos since fleeing the country to avoid prosecution, said San Rafael police Lt. Raffaello Pata. Griff’s name turned up on a passenger roster for a flight from Thailand to San Francisco, and Thai authorities notified the U.S. State Department that he was on the flight, Pata said

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